DOI Artikel:
Tomicka, Joanna A.: The Black Art: Typography and its allegories in emblems during the 16th-18th centuries
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18947#0072
12. S. Fessard after
H. Gravelot, L'ar1
Typographigue, print in:
P S. Fournier, Manuel
typograpgique,
Paris 1764, engraving,
Courtesy of the
National Library
in Warsaw
forms a halo around the head of a female figurę standing on a plinth, clothed
in garments decorated with the letters of various alphabets, an attribute taken
from the representation of the dypography in the Iconologia by Ripa.
The French analogy of Die Buchdruckenkunst... was the two-volume
Manuel Typograpbiąue... by Pierre Fournier, published in Paris in 1764-1766.
The first volume is decorated with an engraving L’art Typograpbiąue designed
by one of the best known rococo graphic artists, Flubert Gravelot (ill. 12).
the history of printing, printers’ biographies, printers’ devices, letter types of “exotic” alphabets,
a glossary of printing terms and list of German printers operating at that time.
23 Cf. O. E. Holloway, French Rococo Book Illustration, London 1969, pp. 7-20; C. Labrosse,
“Sur les estampes de ‘La Nouvelle Heloise’ dessinees par Gravelot”, in Lillustration du Livre et
la litterature an XVIIf siecle en France et en Pologne, Actes du Colloąues organise par 1’Institut
de Litterarture Polonaise et le Centre de Civilisation Franęaise de l’Universite de Varsovie,
66
H. Gravelot, L'ar1
Typographigue, print in:
P S. Fournier, Manuel
typograpgique,
Paris 1764, engraving,
Courtesy of the
National Library
in Warsaw
forms a halo around the head of a female figurę standing on a plinth, clothed
in garments decorated with the letters of various alphabets, an attribute taken
from the representation of the dypography in the Iconologia by Ripa.
The French analogy of Die Buchdruckenkunst... was the two-volume
Manuel Typograpbiąue... by Pierre Fournier, published in Paris in 1764-1766.
The first volume is decorated with an engraving L’art Typograpbiąue designed
by one of the best known rococo graphic artists, Flubert Gravelot (ill. 12).
the history of printing, printers’ biographies, printers’ devices, letter types of “exotic” alphabets,
a glossary of printing terms and list of German printers operating at that time.
23 Cf. O. E. Holloway, French Rococo Book Illustration, London 1969, pp. 7-20; C. Labrosse,
“Sur les estampes de ‘La Nouvelle Heloise’ dessinees par Gravelot”, in Lillustration du Livre et
la litterature an XVIIf siecle en France et en Pologne, Actes du Colloąues organise par 1’Institut
de Litterarture Polonaise et le Centre de Civilisation Franęaise de l’Universite de Varsovie,
66